Having spent my last several submissions to TLE excoriating AG Eric
Holder and others for their part in Operation Gunwalker it seems I've
neglected to criticize the Mexican government. While I have no desire
to mess around in Mexican politics, I thought it would be useful to
point out how Mexico's rulers have tyrannically misused their power
and thus created the sorry mess across the Border.

First and foremost they have engaged in political corruption. For
decades every election was rigged so that the PRI (Partido
Revolucionario Institucional, in English, the Institutional
Revolutionary Party) was the guaranteed winner. Ballot boxes were
blatantly stuffed, graveyard ballots were common, and patronage was
used liberally to buy off all possible opposition. Even trade unions
became adjuncts of the PRI in its heyday.

Police depend on bribes to survive. They are underpaid and regularly
accept payola to buy the food they need to feed their families. While
those with integrity had to be threatened with plata o plomo ( silver
or lead, take the bribe or get shot), too many Mexican police were
used to taking bribes, it was easy to take the Cartels' money.
especially if it was to help the pinche gringos commit suicide with
heroin and cocaine.

Many of the police killed by narcotraficantes and their sicarios were
killed for supporting rival gangs, not because they couldn't be
bought. Other police, local, state and Federal were involved in
kidnap for profit schemes, used sweeps for drug dealers as an excuse
to seize people's money as possible drug profits (can you say civil
forfeiture?), and robbed raped and murdered the factory girls and
prostitutes of Juarez, hiding their victims in the Stats of the drug
wars.

The leader of the Sinaloa Cartel is kin by marriage of President
Calderon of Mexico. The Sinaloa Cartel received more of the weapons
smuggled to Mexico through Gunwalker than the other gangs. In all of
this the Mexican people are all but forbidden to own firearms and
subjest to criminal persecution and prosecution if they forcefully
resist the acts of criminals.

And this is what those who think of themselves as The United States
political leaders want for us. That mess is what Eric Holder and
friends got involved in when they tried to get clever with Operation
Fast and Furious. they should have remembered the movie line, "When
you dance with the Devil, he doesn't change, you do."

Then again maybe that's a warning that should be extended the cartels
about dealing with America's AG.